July 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#95 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 3 birthdays
Leoš Janáček · Czech composer1854
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer1860
Franz Kafka · Bohemian writer from Prague1883
Jesse Douglas · American mathematician1897
George Sanders · British actor1906
S. R. Nathan · 6th President of Singapore1924
Tom Stoppard · Czech–English playwright1937
Jerzy Buzek · Prime Minister of Poland1940
Jean-Claude Duvalier · President of the Republic of Haiti1951
Laura Branigan · American singer and actress1952
Min Aung Hlaing · 11th President of Myanmar1956
Tom Cruise · American actor and producer1962
Yeardley Smith · American actress1964
Julian Assange · Australian editor, publisher, and activist1971
Patrick Wilson · American actor1973
Olivia Munn · American actress, comedian, television personality and author1980
Sebastian Vettel · German racing driver1987
Winston Reid · New Zealand association football player1988
Mike Maignan · French footballer1995
Folarin Balogun · American footballer2001
On this day in history
1938On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial.
1952SS United States departed New York Harbor on her maiden voyage, on which completion she became the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic.
2013General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to depose President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d'état in Cairo, suspending the Egyptian Constitution of 2012.
2017In the U.S. state of Arizona, the Boundary Fire burned out after 32 days, burning 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests.
1754French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, the only military surrender in his career.
1863Confederate forces were defeated by the Union Army on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the American Civil War.
1979US president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding, authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
2005Same-sex marriage became legal in Spain under a law passed by the Cortes Generales.
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